[ubuntu-uk] Off list - Re: Buying a computer suitable for Ubuntu (alan c)

[Martin Houston]

I have a 10 year old IBM T23 that runs Ubuntu tolerably well even - just 
not HD movie playing!

For a PC of any age the big secret is getting as much memory as possible.

A while ago I managed to buy and extra 1G of ram for my daughters old P4 
machine for just £6. It made a huge difference to performance of things 
like Firefox to have 2GB not just 1GB.

The importance of memory is why Microsoft chose to cripple netbooks by 
insisting that they were only sold with 1G if the manufacturers wanted 
virtualy for free Windows on them. They really should not have been 
allowed to get away with that and all the technology waste it caused.
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